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Aboriginal Names. By the aborigines of the Lower Murrumbidgee (Ne 
South Wales) it used to go by the name of " Biall," while to those of the western interior 
it was known as " Yarrah." ' Yarrah," however, according to the late Dr. Woolls, 
was applied by the aborigines to almost any tree. The late Mr. Forester Kidston stated 
that it was formerly known as " Gunwung " by the aborigines of the Lachlan. 
It was an important tree to the aborigines of Victoria, and the following 
aboriginal names are quoted : By Mr. J. G. Saxton, " Moolerr," and " Bealiba," 
Beal Red or Flooded Gum, Ba Creek. By Dr. C. S. Sutton, " Yarrah," " Bwal " 
(Loddon), " Moolerr," " Yooro " (Lake Tyers). 
Mueller quotes the name " Polak " for the aborigines of the Gascoyne River, 
Western Australia. 
Edible and Non-edible Leaves. Mr. T. Grieve sent me from Moulamein 
edible and non-edible Red Gum leaves, on which I reported in the Agric. Gazette of 
June, 1899, p. 496, and at greater length, with the leaves of other trees, in this work, 
vol. v, p. 74. 
I have drawn attention to this preference and repugnance of sheep and cattle 
for apparently the same leaves on various occasions, and believe it is worthy of the most 
careful investigation, but I have never been able to induce those who made reports 
to follow up the matter by careful collection of botanical material. Messrs. Baker and 
Smith, in their " Research on the Eucalypts," p. 75, in proposing a variety borealis, 
suggest that this may be one of the forms of the Red Gum whose leaves cattle eat, but 
as they say that this form does not present any morphological differences to the ordinary 
form, we are pretty much as we were so far as solution of this particular problem is 
concerned. 
Opercnla. Mr. Walter R. Harper exhibited before the Linnean Society of 
New South Wales, August, 1901, a necklet made by the aborigines of the Diamantina 
River, Queensland, of the opercula of this species. The necklet would not last very 
long, but the use of it was new to me. 
Seeds. The seeds are eaten by the Mount Lyndhurst (South Australia) 
blacks. (Koch.) 
Kino. This is a useful astringent, and this species could readily produce 
all the kino (astringent gum) required medicinally in Australia, and there would be a 
good balance for export ; but hitherto there has not been a great demand for it. I gave 
some notes in a paper entitled " The Murray Red Gum (Eucalyptus rostrata Schlecht) 
and its kino," American Journ. Pharm. box, p. 1 (Jan., 1897). Later on we have a 
paper from a pharmaceutical chemist, W. J. Brownscombe, " Gummi Eucalypti rostrata?," 
Pharm. Journ. (3) 25th March, 1899, p. 276. 
Timber. It is, however, to the timber that this species owes its high 
reputation. 
